You can see from the table above that not only was #FvF the top rated movie of the bunch, but it also beat expectations by the widest margin. Once Upon a Time inHollywood just barely beat out expectations, but there’s no shame in that. Tarantino has built a reputation that’s hard to live up to.

Other Oscar wins and snubs

Bummer that Peanut Butter Falcon didn’t win anything at all… It was nominated once, for Shia LaBeouf for Best Supporting Actor. PB Falcon was simply outstanding and deserves all the praise in the world. But since no one (spoiler!) dies in it, I guess it’s not ‘serious’ enough to be a drama, or fluffy enough to be a comedy.

Toy Story 4 won for the Animated Feature category: it was a great finale to a long running saga, all of which were fine films at the top of Pixar’s game. Taming your Dragon 3 could have won in another year — which would have been a great coup for Dreamworks — but no matter how pretty the dragon films were, they didn’t have the engaging depth or heart that Toy Story provided over the years.

Notice Frozen 2, surprisingly, didn’t even get a nod, which has me floored. I thought it was better than the original, personally, and people lost their minds over that one. Nor the rebooted Lion King, which was technically animated (they are calling it photorealistic CGI — do the Oscars need a new category?). Sorry, Disney. Pixar is actually owned by Disney now, but the Pixar films are as much their own thing as Marvel and Star Wars.

Speaking of Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker got a couple of nods in minor categories, but like Endgame, didn’t bring home a win. I kind of expected at least one Oscar, to put a nice bow on 42 years of Star Wars storytelling. Remember when The Return of the King swept the Academy with 11 wins, crediting the Lord of the Rings trilogy as a whole for bringing a difficult fantasy novel to the silver screen? This should have happened with Endgame and Rise of Skywalker. But Star Wars is so divisive now that I imagine no one wants to touch it for a while.

$2,797,800,564 in 2019. Also the highest voted movie on RunPee for 2019.

Can we have a science fiction category now?

What’s interesting: 2019 saw a lot of adventure films closing the book on long-running franchises: Star Wars, MCU’s Infinity Saga, Terminator,Jumanji, Toy Story, How to Train Your Dragon, and Men in Black. Only Toy Story brought home a statue.

Let’s hope the new Ghostbuster movie in 2020 does a bit better.

I think it’s time for the Oscars (and other award ceremonies) to provide a category for Speculative Fiction, to include Sci Fi, Fantasy, Adventure, and Superhero films. If there can be a category for Animated movies, then it’s time to branch out more. Genre movies have a hard time getting any respect! They shouldn’t be stuck with Sound, Makeup/Costumes, or Editing categories as the only way to earn a trophy.

(Last note: we missed out on adding Peetimes for The Irishmanand Marriage Story because they were not wide release movies. Neither movie ever showed up at our local RunPee theaters.)

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